Shifty Shell Prompts

[Ben Scott]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> I'm more bothered that the witness said "regular BC operating system"
> instead of Windows..

  Well, sadly, that's a fair description of Microsoft Windows.  It
*does* have the vast majority of the market share.

  As someone on Slashdot pointed out[1], the thing that's really
ominous is this EFF alegation:

  "[The officer] executed the search warrant and seized ... a “postit”
note on which [the suspect] was in the process of taking notes about
the officers’ actions during the search.  [The officer] left a
Property Receipt with [the suspect] listing items seized during the
search ... The seized post-it note does not appear on that
receipt."[2]

  It's one thing to seize property when there's evidence of a crime.
Thanks to due process, people like you and I can read the warrant and
see what the police are doing.  But when an accused can't even make
notes for use in their own defense, that's a *real* problem.

[1] http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1198771&cid=27576931
[2] http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/inresearchBC/CalixteMemSupport.pdf

-- Ben